Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-11

smoke. AutsS helped by Solomon
N The text SIss,saw tia speed of
the church symSosaed. DO Won realize
the momentum ne Church Of God is
under: Why, the smoke of Chimney on
the top Of Mount Washington Yhen the
wind is blowing sixty miles the hour. is
SLOW compared with the celeritv of Good
influences. For ffry-nine centuries the
devil had his own way among the nations
e Nearly al the great missionary move
merts have been started within the cer-
tury, and see what one century has done
TO recover the world from tifty-niue
centuries OF devastation. What great re-
yivais. What mighty churches. What
saved millions. Whist advancing cfv,l:-
zltian IN al The United S,a'es, Great
Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, I-aly,
full freedom TO worship God according
to conscience. Along the coasts OF
China, japan and Africa the batteries are
planted which are 10 take all these en-
pires for GCd and civilization. From
he ruins Of B-0yIen and Assyria and
Nineveh and the valleys of the Nile con-
trm2tions have been eXiumed proving to
all tlir-mlndcd men that the Bible is the
truest book ever written. The mytholo-
sies Of Egypt were found 20 have embod-
led in them the knowledge Of mans eX-
puision from Paradise, and the sacrifice
II great emancipation. Noses account
/ Of - creation. corrcDorated by the bsI-
!aer Cf Ghris.iau ge0!oEiSts: tha Oldest
proiIne writer's like iI.romus, Halanicus
ALd Berosus, confirming IT, B.5le &C
count OF ancient longevity; TScituS and
Piiny conhraif z the Bible accounts Of
destroyed Sodam and GJmCrTab; Tacitus
o. i ,s-F.l -r4Hr 81
Clr!St IS Matthew and Luke told; Mac
ro5ius telling Of tke mass&cer of chill
dren il s. tAlehuD, ana PGlegon sketch
iu1 the darkness ct the crGciiXi0n. lis
demonstrated 10 al honest men that il Is
Cullen BRYANT wrote Than6-
topsis or Longtel!ow wrote
iIiawdtha SIS that God by the had of
prophet and apostle wrote the Bible All
the wise men in science, aud law and
medicine, AMI literature, ana merchandise
are gradually coming to believe in
Christianity, and soon there will be no
people who disbelieve in it except those
conspicuous for lack of brain or men
with TWO families who do not like the
Bible because IL rebukes their swinish
propensities.
TIE time is Fastening when there will
be no inf lel5 left except libertines and
herlots and murderers. Millions of
Christians where once there were thou
sands, and thousands where once there
were hundreds. What bright evening
this, the evening of the Nineteenth cen
fury, and the Twentieth century, which
will dawn in thirteen ycGIs from now,
will, in my opinion, briGG universal vic
tOTy for Clrist ana the church that now
is marching on with step dOuble-quick
OF, if you prefer the figure o. the text, is
being swept or in the Iaig ty gales of
blessing, imposing end grand and ma
jestic and swift, like pillars Of smoke.
OF, come into the church, through
CaTIst the door, door more glorious
thsn that of the Temple Of Hercules,
which had two pillars, and one was gold
and the other emerald! Come in to-day!
Come il and be Que q; the eternal vic
t0re. The wCrld you leave behind Is a
poor woT d, aud it will burn and pass off
like pillars Of smoke. Whether the final
coniia ration Will start in the coal mines
Of Pennsylvania, which, in some pisces,
have for many years been burning and
eating iutO the heart of the mountains;
Dr whether it shall begin ar the Cali
iornia geysers, or whr Their from out the
furnaces OF CJtopoxi and Vesuvius aud
Stromblli, it shall burst forth upon rhe
isionished nations. make no prophecy,
cut all geClOgistS tell Us that we
stand On the lid of 8 world
ne heart of which is @ raging, roaring,
awful flame, and some day God will let
he red monsters out Of their imprisop-
nent OF centuries. and New York on fire
n 1885, and Charleston GA fire in 1865,
md CDiraun IN, in
IN fire in 1873, were only like one spark
rom q blecksmith's forge as compared
With that last universal b az which will
le seen IN other worlds. But gradually
he flames will lessen ard the world will
become great living coal, end that will
axe on ashen hue, and then our ruined
planet will begin to smoke, and the
mountains will smoke, and the valleys
will smoke, and the islands will smoke,
nd the seas will smoke, and the cities
will smoke, and the i've continents will
,e five pillars Of smoke. But the black
'apors will begin to lessen in height and
lensity, and then will become hardly Wis
bic to those who look upon 1t from the
Ky galleries, and after awhile from lust
me point there will curl up thin, soita-
y vapor, and then even that will vanish,
nd there will be nothing left except the
haired ruins Of a burned-out world, the
orpse OF dead star, the ashes of an ex-
inguished planet, fallen pillar of smoke.
But that will not interfere with Your
Investments if you have taken Christ as
our Saviour. Secure heaven as your
terual home; you can look down upon
dismantled, disrupted and demolished
srth without any perturbation.
When wrapped in fire the realms Of ether
glow,
nd heavens last thunder shake the earth
below,
hou una smaye', shalt DER the ruins smile,
nd llzht thy torch at ia ure's fuLerai pile.